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level questions: Level 2

Question	Answer
Deny (a person or place) the possession or use of something. / BAWIIN. Example: The city was deprived of its water supplies.	DEPRIVE
A place of residence; a house or home. Example: My humble abode.	ABODE
Weakened or damaged. Example: An impaired banking system.	IMPAIRED
an act of saying or showing that something is true. Example: They nodded their heads in affirmation.	AFFIRMATION
To shorten by omissions while retaining the basic contents. / To reduce or lessen in duration, scope, authority, etc.; diminish; curtail. Examples: To abridge a reference book. / To abridge a visit; To abridge one's freedom.	ABRIDGE
An official statement of a complaint over something believed to be wrong or unfair. / REKLAMO. Example: Three pilots have filed grievances against the company.	GRIEVANCE
An illness, typically a minor one. Example: When he is not suffering from violent insanity or any other ailment requiring compulsory confinement in a hospital. (Art 124 - Arbitrary Detention ; "without legal grounds".	AILMENT
The state of being forced to stay in a prison or another place which you cannot leave. / PAGKAKULONG. Example: She had been held in solitary confinement for four months.	CONFINEMENT
Arrest (someone) for a crime. Example: A warrant was issued but he has not been apprehended.	APPREHEND
A measure or condition that keeps someone or something under control or within limits. / PAGPIGIL. Example: Decisions are made within the financial restraints of the budget.	RESTRAINT
Caught in the act of committing and offense. Example: When a suspect is caught in flagrante delicto. (Article 124 - Arbitrary Detention)	FLAGRANTE DELICTO
Information received from other people that one cannot adequately substantiate; rumor. / TSISMIS. Example: Not based on mere hearsay. (Probable Cause in Article 124 - Arbitrary Detention)	HEARSAY
To express a quality or feeling through the way that you look and behave. Example: Her face emanated sadness.	EMANATE
A bitter brownish addictive narcotic drug that consists of the dried latex obtained from immature seed capsules of the opium poppy. / KIND OF DRUG. Example: He was addicted to opium.	OPIUM
A disagreement, argument, or debate. Example: A territorial dispute between the two countries.	DISPUTE
Is a court order demanding that a public official (such as a warden) deliver an imprisoned individual to the court and show a valid reason for that person's detention. Example: Europe was first to introduce habeas corpus and the jury system	HABEAS CORPUS
You express disagreement with a decision or opinion, especially one that is supported by most people or by people in authority. Example: Dissenting opinion of Justice Tuason in the case of Sayo v. Chief of Police. (Article 124 - Arbitrary Detention)	DISSENT
A failure in reasoning which renders an argument invalid. Example: These fallacies occur when someone accepts a truth on blind faith just because someone they admire said it.	FALLACY
To commit: to perpetrate a crime. to present, execute, or do in a poor or tasteless manner. Example: Human rights activists have accused the country's government of a systematic perpetration of violence.	PERPETRATION
Based on the first impression; accepted as correct until proved otherwise. Example: A prima facie case of professional misconduct.	PRIMA FACIE
Not prudent : lacking discretion, wisdom, or good judgment. Example: An imprudent investor.	IMPRUDENCE
for an unlimited or unspecified period of time. Example: If the arrest is made with a warrant of arrest, the person arrested can be detained indefinitely until his case is decided by the court.	INDEFINITELY
It may refer to the sentence given to a convicted juvenile defendant, or to the final determination of a matter (such as a case or motion) by a court. It may also be defined as "transfer to the care, possession, or ownership of another" as well as "the power of such transferal. Example: Disposition of person arrested without warrant.	DISPOSITION
A written statement confirmed by oath or affirmation, for use as evidence in court. Example: A former employee swore an affidavit relating to his claim for unfair dismissal.	AFFIDAVIT
To consider or judge something in a particular way. Example: Duty of detaining officer is deemed complied with upon the filing of the complaint with the judicial authority.	DEEM
Death, destruction, or some other terrible fate. / WAKAS. Example: The aircraft was sent crashing to its doom in the water.	DOOM
Make a physical attack on. Example: He pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer.	ASSAULT
Branch of Government that interprets the law. Example: The independence of the judiciary	JUDICIARY
Of or relating to a judgment, the function of judging, the administration of justice, or the judiciary judicial processes judicial powers. Example: A judicial inquiry into the allegations.	JUDICIAL
The courts of justice or judges of said courts vested with judicial power to order the temporary detention or confinement of a person charged with having committed a public offense, that is, "Supreme Court and such inferior courts as may be established by law. (Sec. 1, Article VIII of the 1987 Constitution).	JUDICIAL AUTHORITIES
The establishment or starting point of an institution or activity. /UMPISA. Example: The investigation must be terminated within 15 days from its inception. (Waiver of the provisions of Article 125)	INCEPTION
An act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct. / PAGLABAG. Example: Breach of contract.	BREACH
Reject or void, especially by legal procedure. Example: Motion to quash.	QUASH
To consult or discuss something together; compare ideas or opinions. / To give an official title, honor, or advantage to someone. Example: The officials were conferring with allies. / Moves were made to confer an honorary degree on her.	CONFER
The protective care or guardianship of someone or something. Example: The property was placed in the custody of a trustee.	CUSTODY
About to happen. / NALALAPIT. Example: They were in imminent danger of being swept away.	IMMINENT
Excessively or improperly. / SOBRA or MASYADO. Example: By unduly delaying the service of the notice of such order to said prisoner. (Punishable under Article 126 - Delaying release)	UNDULY
A person responsible for the supervision of a particular place or thing or for ensuring that regulations associated with it are obeyed. / BANTAY. Example: Wardens and jailers are the public officers most likely to violate Article 126.	WARDEN
Any legal filing, hearing, trial or judgment in the on-going conduct of a lawsuit or criminal prosecution. / PAGLILITIS. Example: There is a proceeding upon a petition for the liberation of such person. (Article 126 - Delaying release)	PROCEEDING
To that place, thing, etc. Example: His agent thereunto lawfully authorized in writing or by will.	THEREUNTO
Means banishment or only a prohibition from residing within the radius of 25 kilometers from the actual residence of the accused for a specified length of time. It is not imprisonment. Example: Any person sentenced to destierro shall not be permitted to enter the place or places designated in the sentence.	DESTIERRO
A person who is avoided or rejected by others for moral or social reasons. Example: The story made her out to be a social leper.	LEPER
An item of property other than real estate. / ARI-ARIAN. Example: When someone moves out of his home, the items he takes with him are chattel.	CHATTEL
A house, apartment, or other place of residence. / TIRAHAN. Example: Violation of domicile by entering a dwelling against the will of the owner thereof or making search without previous consent of the owner.	DWELLING
In a way that attempts to avoid notice or attention; secretively. Example: Having surreptitiously entered said dwelling. (Article 128 - Violation of domicile)	SURREPTITIOUSLY
The process or fact of entering or being allowed to enter a place or institution. / KARAPATANG PUMASOK. Example: People were unable to gain admittance to the hall.	ADMITTANCE
Making someone appear guilty of a crime or wrongdoing. Example: incriminating evidence.	INCRIMINATING
Prevent from happening; make impossible. / (of a situation or condition) prevent someone from doing something. Example: The secret nature of his work precluded official recognition.	PRECLUDE
Persuade or cause (someone) to do something. Example: A search warrant is said to have been procured without just cause when it appears on the face of the affidavit. (Article 129 - Search warrant maliciously obtained...)	PROCURE
To secretly take money that is in your care or that belongs to an organization or business you work for. Example: She had embezzled $5,600,000 in company funds.	EMBEZZLE
Reasonable grounds (for making a search, pressing a charge, etc.). Example: Warrants allow police to detain people, but not handcuff and search them without probable cause.	PROBABLE CAUSE
Legally sufficient reason. Just cause is sometimes referred to as good cause, lawful cause or sufficient cause.	JUST CAUSE
The offense of willfully telling an untruth in a court after having taken an oath or affirmation. / PAGSIRA SA BANAL NA PANGAKO. Example: Application for search warrant has been drawn in such a manner that perjury could be charged.	PERJURY
Obtain (something) by force, threats, or other unfair means. Example: Extorting money from the owner of premises. (Article 129)	EXTORT
Done consciously and intentionally. / SINADYA. Example: A deliberate attempt to provoke conflict.	DELIBERATE